Re: hardware advice
Re: hardware advice
- Subject: Re: hardware advice
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:59:50 EST
In a message dated 11/30/01 1:28:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
email@hidden writes:
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CDTobie wrote:
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You may be right about the simplicity of the EyeOne for many of these
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tasks... but I've yet to see a beginner sit down in front of the English
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version of the monitor software and use it successfully! Those "help
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buttons"
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are actually required steps in the process, not a way to be whisked away
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into
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the never-never land of MicroSoft Help...
This has been my experience with the program: end users do not understand
that the numbers need to be clicked on, in order, as part of the process, so
the do the visible step, and move on to the next section, leaving vital steps
undone. Having seen this happen repeatedly, and heard others comment on the
same exact thing, I consider it a valid, even an important, comment...
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and
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... though the on screen directions for using an IT8 don't
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really give you the details for cropping, selecting data files etc... that
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an
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intro level package ought to. I think that one of the reasons this feature
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tends to be overlooked in reviews is that it has nothing to do with a
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spectrophotometer... its just thrown in (legitamately enough) to complete
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the
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package.
This was in the middle of a piece saying yes, the EyeOne will indeed build
both Trans and Reflective scanner profiles... I was the only one to confirm
that as far as I noticed. Again, the note that its not beginner friendly with
necessary how to info for cropping the necessary IT8 scans for reflective
profiles is a valid comment...
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and
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>"Paper white "B" values that are -1 or -2 with the SpectroCam UV can be
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>-12
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>or -14 with the EyeOne... that strikes me as significant."
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>That is quite significant!
The numbers don't lie, and the paper in the proof looks blue or lavender when
to the eye the actual paper is white.
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I seem to be missing something here - do you have something against the
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Eye-One? Maybe I just don't spend enough time on the Internet, but the only
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place I have heard complaints regarding the Eye-One (and that includes
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clients, etc) is in your posts.
Well, since all these issues are real and legitimate, perhaps the question
should be: why isn't there a jot of criticism of the EyeOne, and why is there
a coordinated Jump-on-David response whenever I mention these or any other
problem points? It concerns me that there seems to be a concerted effort to
ensure nothing but praise is ever uttered for this product! Below you note
criticisms of the Cinema Display (ones I have noted and discussed myself)...
should we both expect to be shouted down for noting these issues?
If you refer to the difficulties of using it with
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an Apple Cinema, that is due to the controls of the Cinema. The fact that
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the Cinema has no contrast, the brightness isn't really brightness, and
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there are no phosphors, does not make the software faulty or difficult.
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That is why there is a button "Not available on this display". For CRT's it
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is a no-brainer.
CDTobie